Renato1
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When I weigh my luggage, I use two techniques. Most accurate is weighing myself on scales, then weighing myself with scales and suitcase, and finding the difference. Less accurate is using digital hand scales, which requires a bit of technique, and I calibrate against my first more accurate tecnique.
Result has been that my first technique has nearly always given the same result as the airport check-in scales of various airlines, at least at the first leg of the flight. But not always - sometimes a kilo over, sometimes a kilo under - which I find odd. I can understand that difference when I use the digital hand scales, because there is some variation in repeatability, even when trying to use the exact same technique.
In Sweden last year, I put my wife's suitcase on one machine, and the weight was exactly what I had previously hand weighed. But my suitcase on another machine was 3kgs higher than what I'd hand weighed. Seemed suspicious to me.
On our flight last week, we checked in at Qatar's Venice check-in, and my wife's suitcase was 22 kg and mine was 26kg - pretty close to what my digital hand scales had given earlier.
We flew to Doha, stayed a couple of days, and bought nothing (as we'd been there last year). Then we repacked the suitcases as we initially had, and checked in at Doha for the trip home - where my wife's suitcase had mysteriously grown to 25kg and mine to 29kg.
It didn't matter in this case as the weights were still within limit. But it would have been very problematic had I packed to 30kgs in the first instance - as when over 32kg, they make you reduce the weight.
Moral of the story, if this happens to you, and excess baggage fees or weight reduction comes into the equation, insist on using another weighing machine.....or two....or three.
Anybody else been suspicious of luggage weights at airports?
Regards,
Renato
Result has been that my first technique has nearly always given the same result as the airport check-in scales of various airlines, at least at the first leg of the flight. But not always - sometimes a kilo over, sometimes a kilo under - which I find odd. I can understand that difference when I use the digital hand scales, because there is some variation in repeatability, even when trying to use the exact same technique.
In Sweden last year, I put my wife's suitcase on one machine, and the weight was exactly what I had previously hand weighed. But my suitcase on another machine was 3kgs higher than what I'd hand weighed. Seemed suspicious to me.
On our flight last week, we checked in at Qatar's Venice check-in, and my wife's suitcase was 22 kg and mine was 26kg - pretty close to what my digital hand scales had given earlier.
We flew to Doha, stayed a couple of days, and bought nothing (as we'd been there last year). Then we repacked the suitcases as we initially had, and checked in at Doha for the trip home - where my wife's suitcase had mysteriously grown to 25kg and mine to 29kg.
It didn't matter in this case as the weights were still within limit. But it would have been very problematic had I packed to 30kgs in the first instance - as when over 32kg, they make you reduce the weight.
Moral of the story, if this happens to you, and excess baggage fees or weight reduction comes into the equation, insist on using another weighing machine.....or two....or three.
Anybody else been suspicious of luggage weights at airports?
Regards,
Renato